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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1945-04-09"
Archie Henry Halliday's navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers flying log book
Admiral Scheer capsized at Kiel
Upper photograph shows a starboard view of the Admiral Scheer. It is captioned: 'The German Battleship "Admiral Sheer" in 1937.'
Lower photograph shows a…
Record of postings
Norman Powell's Operations
Page 1: Sortie report for an operation to Bruck Marshalling yards
Page 2:Vertical aerial target photograph of an unknown location showing some ground detail as tracer trails. Not all…
Vicenza and Trento
2829 104/90. 8/9.APR.45. F8". NT. //9.500 → [redacted]…
Trento
2829 104/90. 8/9-APR-45. F8". NT.//9,500'.→[redacted]…
Kiel
'2493. TUD. 9/10-4-45. //NT. (C). 7". 19,000'. 081 º 2243. KEIL. F.
1HC4000IN. 8…
Caterpillar Club membership
Tags: aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; Caterpillar Club
George Holmes' navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 17 OTU; 50 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Botha; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; mid-air collision; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Extracts from 195 Squadron Operations Record book covering John Brittain's operations
Interview with Frank Page
Maurice Kemp list of operations
A retrospective - Bomber Command No 625 Squadron
Tags: 1 Group; 625 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; briefing; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; intelligence officer; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Nissen hut; nose art; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; P-51; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Kelstern; RAF Millom; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; searchlight; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
L V Rosser - private diary operations
Tags: 115 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Lancaster; pilot; Whitley
Completion of the Casoni improvised landing strip
Tags: Resistance
Harry Brabin memoir
He sailed on the SS Johan Van Barneve to San Francisco and…
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 27 OTU; 4 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); briefing; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; entertainment; faith; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; gremlin; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; Master Bomber; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Me 109; Me 262; Me 410; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; physical training; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; propaganda; radar; RAF Gamston; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF West Freugh; RCAF Mossbank; recruitment; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tallboy; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
K W Payne's Royal Australian Air Force flying log book
Tags: 12 OTU; 1652 HCU; 192 Squadron; 26 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Catalina; Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAAF Bundaberg; RAAF Narrandera; RAAF Parkes; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Croughton; RAF Foulsham; RAF Kidlington; RAF Leconfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Shenington; RAF Weston-on-the-Green; RAF Wing; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window
9 Squadron handwritten Operation Record Book. Four
David James Hughes' flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Eric Sinclair’s Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 11 OTU; 35 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); C-47; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Flying Training School; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; Magister; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Fraserburgh; RAF Gamston; RAF Graveley; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Lichfield; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Meir; RAF Oakley; RAF Ossington; RAF Silloth; RAF Warboys; RAF Westcott; RCAF Penhold; training; Wellington; Whitley
A Woolley’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 50 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Manchester; RAF Bardney; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Metheringham; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Tallboy; training
G W A White’s Royal Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1652 HCU; 1662 HCU; 28 OTU; 50 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blyton; RAF Breighton; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Madley; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pembrey; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Sturgate; RAF Waddington; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Alan Edwin Camlin's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 11 OTU; 1657 HCU; 26 OTU; 7 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Feltwell; RAF Oakington; RAF Oakley; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Warboys; RAF Westcott; RAF Wing; Stirling; training; Wellington
Fred 'Eddie' Edmondson's navigator's, air bomber's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 1652 HCU; 1663 HCU; 35 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 78 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Breighton; RAF Elvington; RAF Graveley; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Rufforth; RAF Upwood; tactical support for Normandy troops; training